As Primary Two draws to a close after what has been a challenging year, the teachers would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all of our pupils and Homework Buddies who have tried out something new by engaging almost exclusively online!

We have worked hard together to provide lessons, homework and feedback in a way we just haven’t had to before. So thank you for your patience and well done for sending in lots of great work; the improvements in confidence and skill have been wonderful to see!

Homework for Primary 2 is NOW COMPLETE, however, after speaking with some parents/carers at Parent’s Night we have collated a list of suggestions to help support our pupils and to give you an idea of the core skills required for Primary 3. Please be reassured that these are just suggestions and we would fully encourage you to enjoy your time off!

A pack of support resources for your child will be sent home in preparation for Primary 3 and can be referred to at any time to help maintain or build further confidence prior to returning in August 2021. Aside from these suggestions, we would always advocate providing a good model of reading so that your child can enjoy a story and talk about what they have read/noticed within a book. We will also signpost you to the USEFUL WEBSITES tab on the menu at the top of the P2 page for appropriate Literacy and Numeracy games.

All P2 pupils have worked on and should continue to develop: –

• Reading and writing initial sounds (all alphabet single sounds)

• Reading and writing stage 1 common words

• Handwriting all lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet

• Writing and counting out items to show the value of numbers to 10 

• How to add groups of items together to make a larger total within 10

• How to take away groups of items to make a smaller total within 10

• If a number is ODD (1, 3, 5, 7 or 9) or EVEN (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8)

• How to identify the number BEFORE/AFTER/BETWEEN given numbers

• How to count up and down in 1s, 2s and 10s.

   

If your child has been working within FIRST LEVEL, they should know:-

• All of the above

• All joined phonemes within Active Literacy Stage 1, (sh, th, ch, ng, wh, ph, ee, oo, ck, ai, oy, oa & qu) and use these to spell words

• Some joined phonemes within Active Literacy Stage 2, (ay, ea {leaf}, ow {snow}, ue, aw, oi, au, ew, ow {owl}, ou & igh) and use these to spell words

• Reading and writing Active Literacy Stage 2 words up to and including the word “right” on the grid

• The place value of numbers to 100 – use the language tens and ones and explain, for example, that 18 is 1 ten and 8 ones which equals 10 + 8, or 25 is 2 tens and 5 ones  which equals 20 + 5 etc

• How to add groups of items together to make a larger total within 20

• How to take away groups of items to make a smaller total within 20

• How to count up and down in 5s.

To all our Primary 2 pupils, we will miss you, work hard in P3 and if in doubt, sound it out!

Sending our best wishes for the future,

Miss Baillie, Mrs Banks, Mrs Easter, Mrs Kidd, Mrs Saxelby and Miss Telford.